ID 880119 
Lot 351  | FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT (1867-1959) AND GEORGE MANN NIEDECKEN (1878-1945)
Estimate value
$ 6 000 – 8 000 
Drawing of the Second Floor Hall Rugs for the Meyer May House, Grand Rapids, Michigan, circa 1908
produced by Niedecken-Walbridge, Co., Milwaukee, Wisconsin
pencil and watercolor on paper
6 11/16 x 12 5/8 in. (17 x 32 cm) (sight)
11 x 17 7/8 in. (27.9 x 45.4 cm) (paper board)
original paper board inscribed #144. along the recto and stamped PROPERTY OF NIEDECKEN-WALBRIDGE CO. INTERIOR ARCHITECTS, 436 Milwaukee St. MILWAUKEE. along the verso
Literature
B. B. Pfeiffer, Y. Futagawa, Frank Lloyd Wright Monograph: 1907-1913, Tokyo, 1987, pp. 72-75 (for a discussion of the commission)
C. Robertson, The Domestic Scene (1897-1927): George M. Niedecken, Interior Architect, Milwaukee, 1981, pp. 33 (for related illustrations of carpet designs)
Steelcase Inc., The Meyer May House Grand Rapids Michigan, Grand Rapids, 1987, p. 14 (for a photograph of the executed carpet)
Y. Futigawa, B. Pfeiffer, Frank Lloyd Wright: Selected Houses I, Tokyo, 1991, pp. 182-197 (for period photographs of executed carpets and a discussion of the commission)
D. Maddex, 50 Favorite Furnishings by Frank Lloyd Wright, New York, 1999, pp. 84-85 (for a discussion of the commission)
A. Weintraub, M. Stipe, Frank Lloyd Wright: The Rooms, Interiors and Decorative Arts, New York, 2014, pp. 84-87 (for a discussion of the commission)
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